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[Argent Xero]

How many times on average does your solo end in failure, or you rage quit?

For me, I can't stand failure during a solo, it's enough to make me not re-attempt it after I tried and did my best, and rage quitting is more of a defeat to me personally. Solos generally don't mean anything to me, does that make it impossible for be to have fun with them?


This is the reason why I don't solo. but I want to try and have fun with the themed ones at least. I just don't have the heart to waste my time with failure if I'm not going to improve from it. :/

I'm lost here... I'm just wondering if it's usual to fail, and if so how do you shake it off?

[N7 Tigger]

I never fail Gold solos anymore. Platinum I fail more than I succeed. I'd say I get full extraction maybe one in four attempts. Less if I pick a character I'm not so good with. Giving up is the only real failure. If you don't enjoy it that's one thing but I never quit because something is hard.

[Creator Limbs]

I'm at an 80% failure rate.

 

I'm just such a scrub, honestly :/

 

I only keep trying because I know I can do it. I just need the focus. It's a little disheartening to get really far only to fail, but you shrug it off by really thinking about what you did wrong that caused you to fail. It can end up making you a better player or making you bitter.

[Catastrophy]

I play to the bitter end I only ragequit Geth matches. I usually pick solos I want to play. Either to explore something or to roleplay. And it's not proper roleplay when the character dies, right? So I can be quite persistent when I've got my mind set to it.

 

However, if you told me to play that and use that while achieving xy stuff it don't work if I can't make up my mind why the character would do it. I need some fictitious incentive to burn through all my consumables.

[ex-Clusum]

Generally, quitting a solo just makes me want to do it again and again till I'm satisfied with the result. When doing some of the harder plat challenges I can average to 10-30 rage-quits.

 

Most of them are wave 1-4 because of dying\using more than 2 consumables\bad luck with wave 3 objective and the rest is wave 10.

 

I only solo when doing the challenges, though.

[RealKobeBean]

Well, I only attempt solos ever so often, as I have to grind them. And I need to be in a particular mindset, one that's patient and collected. Since I don't have that much time to play to begin with, I can only do two attempts most of the time. So, I guess I fails about 60% of them, roughly estimated. When I fail, it's often due to impatience, a lack of focus, or straight up bS.

[Argent Xero]

I never fail Gold solos anymore. Platinum I fail more than I succeed. I'd say I get full extraction maybe one in four attempts. Less if I pick a character I'm not so good with. Giving up is the only real failure. If you don't enjoy it that's one thing but I never quit because something is hard.

I took my Fury to the Thunderdome again, but I rage quit on wave 3 because the brute and ravager got stuck on each other right next to the device.

My natural instincts told me to missile, like I do in team games. but I can't do that in a solo. so I ended up kiting, only to have a ravager camp the device. I didn't have time to kill it so I went and attempted to disable the device only to have it kill me. so I quit.

It wasn't even something I did to enjoy, it was something I HAD to do to improve.

Shows how much I've improved right? :/

...my failed Blackwatch attempt was the final straw. It was just so disheartening. I ****ed up, I was impatient and I screwed myself over on wave 10.

I was at least having fun up until that point. but now I assume all solos are failures, so I'm not even enthusiastic at all about them.


Any tips on how to be enthusiastic about a solo?

[RealKobeBean]

Any tips on how to be enthusiastic about a solo?

Go into them with an open mindset. Don't push yourself too hard. Just hang back and relax. More often than not, I actually don't expect to make it going into a solo, only to succeed in the end. This also results in a more intense, happy feeling of joy.

[Argent Xero]

Generally, quitting a solo just makes me want to do it again and again till I'm satisfied with the result. When doing some of the harder plat challenges I can average to 10-30 rage-quits.
 
Most of them are wave 1-4 because of dying\using more than 2 consumables\bad luck with wave 3 objective and the rest is wave 10.
 
I only solo when doing the challenges, though.

I just can't understand, continuing to solo after previous attempts of failure.

like that saying, doing something over and over again and expecting different results is insanity?

that's so much wasted time and equipment that I could be using for something else.

[RealKobeBean]

Argent,


Are you going to play on the PC, as well?

[Argent Xero]

Go into them with an open mindset. Don't push yourself too hard. Just hang back and relax. More often than not, I actually don't expect to make it going into a solo, only to succeed in the end. This also results in a more intense, happy feeling of joy.

I don't really feel anything after soloing. It just feels like completion to me.

I didn't even celebrate my first Platinum solo, I just went on to use my Infiltrators for the first time.

...I guess I had a goal and met that goal which showed progression which granted me a reward.

Progression = Fun for me. It means I'm improving.

empty solos however don't mean a thing to me. all that's left is completion or failure, and I enjoy neither of those. :/

[Argent Xero]

Argent,
Are you going to play on the PC, as well?

I'm not.

[RealKobeBean]

I'm not.

Real shame...

I wanted to do a batarian gauntlet-wielding Jugg duo with you some day That's good therapy for failed solos, doing something funky.

[Argent Xero]

Real shame...
I wanted to do a batarian gauntlet-wielding Jugg duo with you some day That's good therapy for failed solos, doing something funky.

[Loufi]

I think that most platinum soloers have more failures than successes. So, yes, it's usual to fail. As for me, I would say that my rate of success is around 1 on 3. It's an average, so it hides several solos which have been done at first attempt and others which have needed 6 or 7 attempts (including some suicides after too bad objectives).

 

About fun, I find soloing quite enjoyable and it's the last thing that I consider really challenging in the game (not enough ennemies to kill in team games lol), even if sometimes I'm wondering why I put me under such a pressure. But ME3 being by far my favorite game, I want to feel that I really master it, and doing plat solos with a lot of different setups (all classes, all races, etc.) is in my mind a way of proving that to myself. 

[Sket]

I only fail when I try to go faster than I'm skilled for. Sometimes I run out of gels or get synced and sometimes I go down too many times on early waves and then rage quit. So basically when trying to get a good time (for me sub 25 gold, sub 40 plat) there's a chance of failure. 

 

Also the mighty x-box d-pad gets a fare share of my rage quits. Can't stand it that I lose couple of gels and ops packs just because my character takes a missile out when I'm trying to use ops packs or thermal clips.

A lot of this - I don't rocket spawns and I go for waves survived and as few consumables used as possible when I solo, so the BS this game throws at you made me rage quit 2 of my 6 Plat solo attempts. 

[ClydeInTheShell]

Soloing is all about "want to", not "need to". It's what took me so long with Thunderdome; I'd been trying every day for weeks, then one day I realized I was doing it because I felt like I had to, and that's why I didn't have the drive. I took some months off, and I attempted it when I was ready, and only when I was ready. Every attempt was fun and a learning experience. That's how I look at the solo challenges too, I don't have to do them but it's usually a character or weapon that I don't use regularly so it's a fun challenge for me to overcome. 

[LemurFromTheId]

I just can't understand, continuing to solo after previous attempts of failure.

like that saying, doing something over and over again and expecting different results is insanity?

That's only true if you keep making the same mistakes every time you play.

 

If you learn from your mistakes you will eventually succeed.

[Loufi]

I just can't understand, continuing to solo after previous attempts of failure.

like that saying, doing something over and over again and expecting different results is insanity?

that's so much wasted time and equipment that I could be using for something else.

Doing exactly the same thing and expecting a different result is insanity. But usually after a failure, the following attempts are better, especially when you try a new map. Each map has his own rythm based on its size and the locations of spawns and, after several attempts on the same map, you start to "feel" the rythm of the map, and know instinctively when ennemies are going ot flanck you or attack you in your back.

 

Doing something hard is the best way to improve (so to have fun according to you), and plat solos are the hardest thing you can do in the game.  

[Argent Xero]

Soloing is all about "want to", not "need to". It's what took me so long with Thunderdome; I'd been trying every day for weeks, then one day I realized I was doing it because I felt like I had to, and that's why I didn't have the drive. I took some months off, and I attempted it when I was ready, and only when I was ready. Every attempt was fun and a learning experience. That's how I look at the solo challenges too, I don't have to do them but it's usually a character or weapon that I don't use regularly so it's a fun challenge for me to overcome.

That's how I felt about my first Platinum solo, Former Glory and my Volus. Volus was just for laughs.

I had 8+ attempts at my first solo and at Former Glory.


but, what's changed I wonder.. something has been making me very impatient lately. I wonder if it's because I can record now.

Maybe I need to take a break then, but still... I have way more fun playing together with someone than playing alone.

[dumdum2]

 I just don't have the heart to waste my time with failure if I'm not going to improve from it. :/

 

That's the thing right there. If you keep seeing it as a failure then chances are that you will probably try it again using the same approach and expecting a different result. Don't look at it as a failure, just look at it as a result. If you got a result that you didn't like then think about what lead up to that result and learn from it.

 

The same goes for everything you do in life. Have you ever tried to screw in a lightbulb the wrong way and after a few seconds when you realized it wasn't working you tried the other way instead? That's how you have to approach situations that you consider a "failure".

 

Then again, this game can troll you pretty hard sometimes.....

[Creator Limbs]

Sometimes you just need a break Ari, no big deal

[Dovakiin_N7]

I never soloed after getting my lone wolf. I just dont have the patience. But I really admire who can solo platinum. I never even tried. Unfortnately bioware do not puts on challenges to get me inspired either. Although I am not a bad player, you can add me if on PC. :-). I mostly pug UUG. Lobbies are not getting filled up these days.

[dumdum2]

Maybe I need to take a break then, but still... I have way more fun playing together with someone than playing alone.

 

We can do some relaxing duos sometime if you'd like. I used to be decent at soloing so maybe I can give you a few pointers while playing together as well.